Itstartedwithaquestion.

In November 2025, Harsh visited a coaching institute in Rewari. The owner, a former physics teacher who started the institute with eight students fifteen years ago, was at his desk at 9:47 PM. He was manually entering attendance for 312 students into a Tally sheet. He had been doing this every night for fifteen years.

He looked up and said something Harsh hasn't forgotten. "Beta, main padhane ke liye institute khola tha. Ab main sirf records bhar raha hoon."

Roughly translated: I opened this institute to teach. Now I just fill out records.

That is the question that started Sahayak. India has 70 million students in private coaching. They are taught by 600,000 teachers and run by 70,000 institute owners. Almost all of them spend more time on operations than on education. Attendance registers, fee ledgers, parent WhatsApp groups, mock test schedules, seating plans, doubt logs. The actual teaching is the smallest part of the day.

The first assumption was software. After talking to 47 institute owners across Haryana, UP, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, the pattern was clear. Every institute already has software. Classplus, Teachmint, Vidyalaya, custom Excel sheets, hand-written ledgers. The software is not the problem. The work is. Software shows you the work. It does not do it.

Sahayak was built to do the work.